Great Depression Review

The __________________  was the longest period of unemployment and low economic activity in the 1900's.

• New Deal
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Civil War

A time when business activity is very slow and people are out of work is known as a _____________.

• crash
• depression
• party
• low time

After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.

• banks closed
• banks gave away their money
• they couldn't remember where they put it
• someone stole it

The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.

• Franklin Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Abraham Lincoln
• Grover Cleveland

What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

• New Deal
• Great Deal
• Social Security
• the New Liberalism

What was the "New Deal" of the 1930s?

• a government program that gave free land to homesteaders 
• a government program that spread civil rights throughout the country
• a government program designed to help people during the depression 
• a government program that helped women get the vote 

In the 1930s, what made farmers migrate from the Great Plains?

• high farm prices
• new technologies 
• Dust Bowl
• baby boom

New Deal programs like CCC and WPA were made to help

• farmers
• home owners
•  businesses
• unemployed workers

Nickname for Stock Market Crash of 1929

• Black Tuesday
• Dooms Day
• Black Thursday
• Dooms Friday

Roosevelt's collection of laws and programs to help the nation deal with the Depression was known as

• the New Deal.
• the Square Deal.
• the Hundred Days.
• Public Works.